Temporary bed-rail.



No. 890,461. PATENTED JUNE 9, 190a.

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TEMPORARY BED RAIL.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG; 15, 1907.

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WILLIAM H. SMITH, OF REED CITY, MICHIGAN.

TEMPORARY BED-RAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed August 15, 1907. Serial No. 388,728.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reed City, in the county of Osceola and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temporary Bed- Rails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in short rails or blocks for use to support the ends of bedsteads for exhibition purposes, when it is desired to show the pattern of the head and foot pieces of a bedstead with as little waste of room as possible, and its object is to provide a cheap, durable and sightly rail that may be readily a lied or removed when desired. I attain t is object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pair of bed posts with my device attached. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the same, and Fig. 3 shows the device detached.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing, Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the post at the head of a bedstead, and A represents the same at the foot of a bedstead, and E represents the lugs that are secured to the posts to receive and support the side rails.

My device consists of two straps, B, pivoted at b and having apertures at the ends for the passage of the ends D of the staples D, as shown, and I prefer to use a short metal strap, as C, at each end of the device, so located that the ends of the staple D will pass through them and cause them to form a substantial bearing between the ends of the straps B and the sides of the lugs E. T 0 apply this device I place the staple D into the rail slot in the lugs E, as shown in Fi 2, and then place the straps 0 upon the ends of the staple and the ends of the straps B outside of the straps C and draw them snugly against the surface of the lugs E with the thumb screws (Z.

It will be readily seen that when the device.

has been adjusted to any style of lug it will not be necessary to take it apart when placing it upon such lugs, as the thumb screws d may be loosened enough so that the Sta les D may be passed over the ends of the ugs without difficulty.

By using longer or shorter staples D the strips B may be adjusted to any size or shape of lug, it being understood that the strips C must be fitted accordingly, and I prefer that the strips C be used though in an emergency the device will hold a bedstead to place Without these plates, but I design to have a set of plates for every set of staples used, and to provide these temporary rails to fit every form of lugs.

The device may be successfully used without the use of the vertical strips 0 C but not nearly as satisfactorily as with, hence I pre-' fer that these strips be always used, though I desire to control the use of the device in either form, as the invention is practically complete in either form.

To further add to the efficiency of the device, I place a fabric washer or packing C between the strap 0 and the side of the lug E to'avert the danger of marring the surface of the lug by direct contact with the strap. I also, sometimes, upset the ends of the staple at D so that the thumb screws (1 will not be likely'to be lost.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

l. The combination in a temporary bed rail of two metallic strips pivoted together at the center and havin apertures through the ends, and staples ad usted to pass the ends through the apertures in the ends of the strips, and thumb screws engaging the ends of the staples to secure them to place, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination in a temporary bed rail of two metal strips pivoted together at the center and having apertures through the ends, staples adapted to engage the lugs of a bedstead, and passing through the apertures in the ends of the strips, and short strips acting as washers on the ends of the staples between the ends of the longitudinal strips and the lugs, and a fabric washer between the vertical strips and the sides of the lugs. A,

3. In combination With the lugs of a metal tially as shown and described, and for the bedstead, two longitudinal strips having purpose set forth. 1.0 apertures in the ends, two vertical strips hav- Signed at Reed City Michigan August ing corresponding apertures in their ends, tenth 1907.

staples arranged to engage the lugs and the WILLIAM H. SMITH. apertures through the strips, and thumb In presence of screws engaging the ends of the staples to WILLIAM H. HAWKINS,

clamp the strips solidly to the lugs, substan- CHAs. MARSHALL. 

